Dont let facts get on the way of a nice tale, and do not burst the buble of the poster that the email protocol in use in the last 50 years was not designed with many reliability questions in mind, and the sender is easily faked.

How about a kilt?

Translate female for male: Are Male-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?

Yes, for sure, I do remember the huge facilities HP had near the campus.

If you say so. Living in a European capital with stellar food choices, excellent seafood, very high quality cheap wines, and comparatively much lower prices, and to top if off where people actually know what is good food, I beg to disagree.

You can always get a flight to London in a weekend in any city in europe, see a word class theather, meet new people and not live in a very crowded and expensive city. About the eating, I can't even figure out why I would go to England to eat.

I studied in Bristol. The kind of industry is not exactly what IT people want. Low skilled labor, small town syndrome. Apart from some hubs designated to attract students, it is a town with the syndrome of a village. Would not enjoy living there, enjoyed it when younger tough.

Very insightful, and the comment about tier 5 was particularly delightful.

And that is really the key thing. On those days of always connected and virtualisation technologies, skips and email in our pocket, why do we have to live in dreadful places?

Exchange mobiles with friends and confuse their data. I don't understand why in that uk event where police is cross-referencing bracelets and faces to train their cams and get more faces on the system, why did not anyone come out with the civil disobedience idea of exchanging bracelets on mass.

ski masks are pretty off-limits in most places nowadays, but dark glasses and hats are pretty acceptable and you will pass for a dumb hipster.

And do not forget the more important part, with whom you are with. Association with know objectors to our policy? Reeducation camp for you.

I guess they have not discovered porn yet. If I had to see cat videos everyday I think I would turn either suicidal or maniac.

Poor geeks. Rich geeks already have too much Unix systems to care at work and want the best and some thing low maintenance at home.

I understand the part about cost of living, not so much about improving moving to Germany...But hey, if it suits you, that is fine. I lived 6 years in Africa actually.